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Deromantic
is both epic and grand and sparse and minimal. They deftly manage both ends of
the spectrum. Steve Puchalski's voice has Doug Sahm's sadness, the epic nature
of early Springsteen, and the soul of a veteran bluesman. This album, full of
grand heartbreak and passion, attempts to look honestly and not apologetically
at life's hard knocks. The band, more accurately the Familiar Music artistic collective,
swings, grooves, smolders, and smokes. This is terrific soul-filled roots-pop.
-- Jeff Weiss, Miles of Music (Familiar Music)
The
musical collaboration of the decade, Raising Sand is the sound of two iconic figures
stepping out of their respective comfort zones and letting their instincts lead
them across a brave new sonic landscape. Despite hailing from distinctly different
backgrounds, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant share a maverick spirit and willingness
to extend the boundaries of their respective genres. This spirit, expertly honed
by producer T Bone Burnett, has resulted in an album pitched three steps beyond
some cosmic collision of early urban blues, spacious West Texas country, and the
untapped potential of the folk-rock revolution. Supported by the unparalleled
musicianship of Marc Ribot, Dennis Crouch, Mike Seeger, Jay Bellerose, Norman
Blake, Greg Leisz, Patrick Warren, and Riley Baugus, Plant and Krauss - as both
solo and harmony vocalists - tackle an intriguing selection of songs from such
tunesmiths as Tom Waits, Gene Clark, Sam Phillips, Townes Van Zandt, The Everly
Brothers, and Mel Tillis. Raising Sand finds Robert Plant and Alison Krauss exploring
popular music's elemental roots while still sounding effortlessly, breath-takingly
Contemporary.(Rounder)
"After
his death, it was the clearest way I could express my love for him and acknowledge
the depth of our friendship" said Dwight Yoakam on why he chose to record
an album of Buck Owens songs. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the album
will be donated by Dwight Yoakam and New West Records to the "Buck Owens
American Music Foundation" a charity devoted to the reservation of the Bakersfield
sound and the Buck Owens legacy. Track Listing: My Heart Skips A Beat/Foolin'
Around/I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)/Only You/Act Naturally/Down
On The Corner Of Love/Cryin' Time/Above And Beyond/Love's Gonna Live Here/Close
Up The Honky Tonks/Under Your Spell Again/Your Tender Loving Care/Excuse Me (I
Think I've Got A Heartache)/Think Of Me/Together Again. (New West)
"The
new songs aren't really the draw on Follow the Lights, the seven-song Ryan Adams
EP.... (Anyway there are only two of them: the title track and "My Love for
You Is Real," both of which will soon be featured on the ABC series "October
Road.") The draw for most fans will be a handful of Mr. Adams's near-classics
performed live in the studio with his stalwart band, the Cardinals. The mood is
reflective and sober, especially on a slowed-down acoustic version of "If
I Am a Stranger... Finally there's a lone cover, the Alice in Chains song "Down
in a Hole," which Mr. Adams has taken to playing in concert. The lyrics sound
as stark and self-pitying as ever, but they fit: Mr. Adams knows this terrain
all too well, and he seems happy to show it." -NY Times (Lost Highways) 
"Chrome
Dreams II is a stunning collection of eight new and two classic Young songs. Recorded
last summer in Northern California, musicians include Ben Keith (pedal steel guitar,
dobro and other instruments), Ralph Molina (drums) and Rick Rosas (bass)"
--yahoo.com
"With
The Wolf... Jennings turned from the southern rock sound of those albums (Put
the O Back in Country and Electric Rodeo ) to a more traditional sound. And you
can't get more traditional than having the Oak Ridge Boys help out on "Slow
Train," or getting Doug Kershaw to lend some fiddle work" -- suburbanchicagonews.com
(Universal South)
Nashville
and Chicago based renegade Pete Berwick's music suggests hard livin', honkytonks,
endless highways and lost love. Berwick's Jack Daniels soaked vocals are raw and
rough-edged, as he sings songs from a discerning and familiar point of view. Berwick
weaves his early cowpunk influences with contemporary and traditional styles to
create a musical mosaic, which is diverse, yet comprehensive and extremely individual,
and deeply rooted in American music.--Tony Engelhart, Crud Magazine (Shotgun Records)
Chicago-based
band, The Redwalls, shine at their best with their latest release. Produced by
Tore Johansson (Franz Ferdinand, OK Go), The Redwalls expands on the band's existing
rhythm and blues / power-pop with exploration of grittier sonic territories and
song composition. With a combination of vibrant punk-inspired tracks, soaring
pop grooves and soulful, reflective ballads, The Redwalls is an album that is
marvelously eclectic, both musically and emotionally, and shows off the band's
ambition and abundant musical skill. (Mad Dragon Records)
'Cavalier'
was produced by PJ Harvey collaborator and Producer John Parish at Toy Box studio
in Bristol, UK over the space of a week in May 2007. A huge fan of Tom's music
after witnessing him play live, John augments Tom's songs with an array of subtle,
sympathetic instrumentation and / or recording technique but never allows himself
to encroach on Tom's songs. Providing deft flourishes, underlining or embellishing
what is already there, he pulls off the neat trick of expanding or magnifying
the songs while keeping the spotlight firmly on Tom's voice and guitar. 'Cavalier'
is Tom's most personal record to date, and the recordings are referred to by Tom
as an apocalypse of the self - yet they retain all the humility, tenderness and
beauty of Tom's best work. (Fat Cat)
The
album features sixteen songs, plus two score passages, all recorded exclusively
for the film by some of the finest names in music today, all for the benefit of
paying tribute to one of the brightest new songwriting talents in the last two
decades: Jesse Harris. Grammy winning singer/songwriter Jesse Harris wrote all
the music for the soundtrack and serves as the album's co-executive producer along
with the film's director/screenwriter/producer, Ethan Hawke. Together, they assembled
a peerless group of artists to record Harris' songs: Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris,
Norah Jones, Cat Power, Bright Eyes, Feist, The Black Keys, M. Ward, Brad Mehldau,
Tony Scherr and Argentinean newcomer, Rocha. Jesse Harris recorded three songs
for the soundtrack himself and also has a small role in the film. (Hickory Records)
As
lead singer and main songwriter of Scottish rock/popsters Del Amitri, Currie established
an enviable reputation for sterling melodic craftsmanship and pithy, forthright
lyrics. What Is Love For maintains those qualities, while achieving impressive
new levels of musical and emotional immediacy.(Rykodisc)
Word
of these recordings has been circulating among Grayson Capps' fans for years.
Recorded in 2002-three years before his debut album If You Knew My Mind-this magical,
stripped-down session features only Grayson on acoustic guitar and his longtime
friend Tom Marron on fiddle. Recorded at New Orleans' 9th Street Pickin' Parlor,
Grayson let the tape roll, cutting the entire album in less than five hours. Appropriately
titled Songbones, featured here are Grayson's original renditions of songs like
"Washboard Lisa," "I Can't Hear You," "Slidell"
and "Mermaid" that have since become staples in his repertoire. Also
available for the first time are rarities like "Junior & The Old African
Queen," "Guitar" and "Psychic Channel Blues." It's a
pristine recording that captures Grayson's songwriting, voice and guitar-picking
in all of its unadorned glory. Only 5000 copies of the album are being made available
as a collector's piece for Grayson's fans. (Hyena)
Drunk
& Crazy was a career defining release and an encapsulation of the 'devil may
care' rambunctious yet poetic style the artist had honed over many years. For
Drunk & Crazy Bare continued his collaboration with master song writer Shel
Silverstein, a musical marriage made in heaven. The album contains some fine examples
of Silverstein's vivid imagination and canny observations ranging from the anthem
of bad behavior 'Drunk and Crazy' and the fearless 'Drinkin' and Druggin' and
Watchin' T.V.' to the spiritual observations of 'Your Credit Card Won't Get You
Into Heaven'! Track Listing Drunk & Crazy (1980): Drunk And Crazy /Food Blues
/The World's Last Truck Drivin' Man /I Can Almost See Houston From Here /If That
Ain't Love /Rock And Roll Hotel /Song Of The South /Appaloosa Rider /Bathroom
Tissue Paper Letter /Willie Jones /Gotta Get Rid Of This Band /Drinkin' And Druggin'
And Watchin' T.V/Your Credit Card Won't Get You Into Heaven /I've Never Gone To
Bed With An Ugly Woman /Desperados Waiting For The Train. Bonus Tracks: Greasy
Grit Gravy /New Cut Road /If You Ain't Got Nothin' (You Ain't Got Nothin' To Lose)
/Praise The Lord And Send Me The Money /(They Covered Up) The Old Swimmin' Hole
/Me And Jimmy Rogers /The Jogger /Rosanne Cash With Bobby Bare-No Memories Hangin'
'Round /Lacy J. Dalton With Bobby Bare- 24. It's A Dirty Job.(Raven)
Beyond
The Purple Hills marks the 15th CD from this hard-driving Texas band. Western
swing, Texas honky-tonk, roots rock'n'roll and country-rock styles are explored
in this colorful excursion, all held together by a talented collection of seasoned
Austin players. Fiddle, steel guitar, piano, sax and guitar solos power a collection
of excellent Hurd originals including Come On Home To Houston, I Should Have Married
Marie, The Big Lie and Texas Eyes. Covers include obscure gems by American greats
like Moon Mullican, The Lovin' Spoonful and Sonny Knight. Cornell Hurd has been
making records since the mid-70s, and this CD proves he's not slowing down.(Behemoth
Records)
Eight
electric tales moving from space-marooned heavy blues to angelic, opiated dream
haze all propelled via the crud-fuzz of White Light/White Heat Velvets and Jesus
and Mary Chain and the sprawling, melted constructions of Spacemen 3 and Red Krayola.
(Tee Pee Records)
Chicago-based
chamber pop collective the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir aren't your typical debauched
rock stars reveling in a pastiche of self-destructive clichés. Leading
a band that's shared the stage with both the Arcade Fire and Ira Glass, Spoon
and Dave Eggers, it's clear that lead singer, guitarist, and keyboard player Elia
and his scrappy cooperative are comfortable straddling the divide between the
debased rock 'n' roll world and the high-minded literati.On the group's self-titled
sophomore album (their first for Bloodshot) they deliver songs that crackle with
the sweeping intensity of life in its totality-songs that evoke the jubilance
of an early spring as effortlessly as the desolation of a Chicago winter. (Bloodshot)
Seth
Walker's 11-track collection spills over with down-home grit and feeling. Tunes
like "Change My Way" and "Gone Before I Knew It" are steeped
in Texas-soaked guitar boogie. Simultaneously, he can turn around and deliver
tasty country soul on songs like "Steady," "2 Feet Left From The
Ceiling" and "Sun Down." The North Carolina born-and-raised musician,
who grew up on a hippie commune, also showcases a penchant for interpreting the
work of other great songwriters. His solo piano-vocal rendition of Tom Waits'
"Picture In A Frame" is quite simply gorgeous. On the James Hunter-penned
number "Kick It Around," he turns out the kind of stinging blues licks
and tough vocals that have earned him praise from artists like Delbert McClinton,
Johnny Winter, Dale Watson and Marcia Ball. (Hyena)
"One
listen and it's obvious that Case, a native Virginian, is no genre-jumper. Rather,
like k.d. lang, she's a neo-classicist -- an accomplished stylist ...she's more
of a belter in the tradition of Rose Maddox, Linda Gail Lewis and Wanda Jackson,
with a dash of Exene Cervenka thrown in for good measure." -- Bill Friskics-Warren,
New Country (Mint)
Reunion
Tour is another superb tome from indie rocks most singular narrators, The Weakerthans.
The new album was recorded after-hours above a closed factory in the cold Canadian
spring, weaving the frontier loneliness of the environment into rich lyrical yarns
four years in the making. Songs such as `Sun in an Empty Room`and `Civil Twilight`
tell of individual journeys with a melancholic empathy that Paste magazine has
described as `songs of brutal beauty, little rock n roll vignettes that perfectly
capture the malaise of the peculiar, disorienting times in which we live.` (Anti)
Now,
for the first time, all five out-of-print singles have been collected in one place
on Jukebox Explosion, along with eight previously unheard rarities from the band's
early days that are every bit as action-packed, frantic, and furious.Jukebox Explosion
captures one of the most exciting, original, and influential bands to emerge in
the 1990s at the absolute peak of their powers. If you dig rock 'n' roll music,
this stuff is absolutely essential. (In The Red)
In
2005, King's Living Room Tour was captured on video. The High Definition DVD,
in stereo and 5.1 Surround audio, includes nearly 2 hours of hit songs as well
as exciting and rare bonus features that allow fans to access rehearsals, backstage,
and even during the writing of an actual song! Included are all of Carole's between-song
stories as well as 11 songs not included on the double CD release.Track Listing/Features:Opening
Credits/Song Of Long Ago/Welcome To My Living Room/ Beautiful/ Where You Lead/I
Will Follow/Say Goodbye Today/Now And Forever/Been To Canaan/Nobody Wants To Be
Lonely/Love's Been a Little Bit Hard On Me/Smackwater Jack/Medley: The Right Girl/
Keep You Hands Off My Baby/Every Breath I Take/I'm Into Something good/Go Away
Little Girl/Hey Girl/One Fine Day/Will You Love Me Tomorrow/ Loving You Forever/Up
On the Roof/It's Too Late/(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman/Hard Rock Cafe/Chains/Pleasant
Valley Sunday/I Feel the Earth Move/So Far Away/You've Got a Friend/Locomotion/End
Credits. (Rockingale Records)
On
March 1, 2007, Yusuf Islam made a historic return to the live arena performing
a full length set to an invited audience at the Porchester Hall in London. This
was the first time that Yusuf has performed a full concert in over 28 years. Included
in the set were classic songs as well as a newly-worked version of an all-time
favorite, as well as a selection of tracks from his 2006 gold album An Other Cup.
The concert was filmed and recorded in 5.1 surround sound, and includes an insightful
one hour documentary, several bonus videos, and EPK. Track Listing/Features: Wind
East & West, The Wind/Midday (Avoid City After Dark)/Don't Be Shy, Maybe There's
a World/In the End/Where Do the Children Play?/The Little Ones/I Think I See the
Light/Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood/Heaven/Where True Love Goes/How Long/Peace
Train Blues/The Beloved/Father & Son/Wild World (Zulu version)/Peace Train.
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